Trans persons are being erased from culture thanks to our current president.
Eh, the game was (according to the OP) released on Jun 1, 2022.
So you can't really blame Trump since Biden was then president of the USA.
I suppose you started writing the game during Trump's first term, but still, you can't blame him for everything.
To be honest, this comment is examplary of what I dislike most about this game: the way that politics are being pushed into the narrative.
"lily-white Christian nationalist heterosexual Republicans" are people too. And none of the ones that I know would treat Alex the way she's treated in the game. And neither would any police officer I know. Even if they happen to disagree with trans as a concept, and perhaps don't wish to contribute to surgery with their tax money, they don't need to hate trans persons.
Bad (and good) people exist with all kinds of political or religious preferences.
Which does not mean that I think that trans people have easy lives. I'm sure many of them don't have it easy at all, and that's something that this game portrays really well.
It's just that I find this woke binary thinking (Republican bad, Democrat good, Christian bad, Atheist good etc.), which is mostly present in Alex' mother, very very annoying.
If the game had, for example, a "lily-white Christian nationalist heterosexual Republican" older uncle type character, who would be nothing but sympathetic towards Alex, despite not agreeing with the general trans ideology, it would give this game a lot more depth.
But, anyway, thanks for coming here to post the update!